Sunday

MANSFIELD — An Avon man faces a string of charges after attempting to rob gas stations in Stoughton and Mansfield, fleeing police and trying to carjack someone in their driveway, police said.

Mansfield police said they received a call at 5:50 a.m. from a clerk at the Mobil Gas Station on Chauncey Street that a man brandishing a handgun tried to rob the store before fleeing in a dark-colored vehicle.

Police spotted and tried to stop the vehicle, but it fled onto Interstate 495 South. The man abandoned the car on the side of the highway in Foxborough and fled into the woods, police said.

As officers searched the wooded area for the man, police received a call from a resident reporting a man with a knife had just tried to carjack them and ran off.

Police said Alfredo Rosa, 27, was located in the woods a short time later and arrested.

Rosa is being charged by Mansfield police with armed robbery while masked, uttering threats to kill, unlawful possession of a firearm, failing to stop for police, attaching motor vehicle plates to conceal identification and civil motor vehicle infractions.

Rosa is also being charged by Stoughton police with armed robbery while masked of a gas station in connection with an incident that happened in that town at 2 a.m.

Rosa will also face additional charges from Foxborough police and Massachusetts State Police.